Karamo Brown Quotes

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Working with real firefighters keeps us really grounded. How can you possibly complain that your trailer is not at the correct temperature when you are working with a man who ran out of a burning building to save someone's life?

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.